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Sir , Clapton , June 8 , 1817 * 1 HAVE expected to see in your pages some biographical notices of the late Mr . Joyce , which , I trust , may yet be communicated . In the
mean time give me leave to indulge my recollection of his valuable acquaintance , by bearing a willing , yet faithful testimony to his character and conduct on some points of no inconsiderable consequence .
Thirty years have nearly , if not . quite , elapsed since our first acquaintance , while he was a theological student . In 1792 , I joined him as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information * in connexion with which , as is well known , he suffered a
political prosecution . Yet treachery , though bribed to make discoveries , could not , after all , substantiate any criminality . In that society there were persons , justly distinguished by talents and political sagacity , who made no
pretensions to a religious character . With these Mr . Joyce zealously cooperated to promote the useful objects of the present life without losing himself , even in such fascinating company , as if he had no other life to expect . For this conduct he was rewarded ,
besides his own peaceful reflections , by the respect with which his political associates always regarded him . He has , indeed , left an edifying example to professors of religion , yet in the vigour and activity of life , whom
eventful times may call out to arduous and political duties . They will learn , from his experience , that respect and influence are not likely to be forfeited , but rather acquired , by maintaining , in every situation , an unobtrusive , yet consistent Christian deportment .
There was another point of conduct on which I had frequent occasions to know that Mr * Joyce was exemplary . I mean his regard to the wants and sufferings of those who became the
victims of ministerial vengeance at the period to which I have referred . Not to mention living characters or to repeat my acknowledgements for his attentions to Mr * Palmer and his
associates , 1 will instance the case of Mr . Holt . He had been a bookseller at Newark , and was convicted of re-publishing a declaration , sanctioned by Mr . Pitt , while he professed to be a Political Reformer . To remove him far from the kind offices of his friend * , hp
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was imprisoned in- Newgate , where I visited him in 1797 . He then appeared to be suffering under consumptive symptoms , and in a place most unsuitable to such a patient . He died , as might have been expected , soon after his return to his family . I am ashamed to recollect that the case of
that interesting , unassuming man was , at first , in danger of being unaccountably overlooked , and it was in no small degree owing to the interference of Mr . Joyce , whom Mr . Holt gratefully mentions , in a letter now before me , that , at last , he was not neglected .
I could recount , with much satisfaction , my friend ' s endeavours , especially in an official capacity , to promote those views of religion which he regarded as Christian truth ; also the various and valuable objects of moral and intellectual improvement to which he applied his habits of literary
industry . These , however , are too well known , and such as others can better appreciate . I have here designed , with the advantage of near observation , and as one of the small and rapidly decreasing number of his early associates , to describe the consistency of his character and conduct as a Christian , laudably engaging in the active duties of political life . J . T . RUTT .
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Rev . Jeremiah Joyce . —Rev . W . Vidler . 357
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85 , Basinghall-street , Sir , June 16 , 1817-OBSERVING in the last part of the Memoir of Mr . Vidler , in your Number for April last , [ p . 1 £ K > , ] a misstatement of the stipend received by
him from the Congregation of Parliament Court , I beg you will , in your next , insert the following correction , which 1 have extracted from my account , for the seven years commencing in 1808 , during which time , being the acting treasurer , all the money passed through my hands .
From my accounts it appears that Mr . Vidler received In 1808 , £ 133 1 O 6 1809 , 78 7 6 1810 , 102 7 6 1811 , 84 16 O 1812 , 89 10 O 1813 , 9 O 5 6 1814 , 44 15 6 Total in these 7 years 6 % S 10 6
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/37/
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